Beginners in silk painting should start with simple designs. Complex patterns can be overwhelming and frustrating. Simple designs allow you to learn the feel of the brush on silk, understand how the ...

Written for the Scientific American By Dr. M.Reimann, of Berlin Supposing it is required to dye 100 lbs. of raw silk, 12 lbs. of soap are boiled with a sufficient quantity of river or rain water ...

The site, which requires rezoning, calls for a complicated proposal to build 163 apartments in a flood-prone section of ...

Ice dyeing is a fabric dyeing technique that uses ice or snow to create beautiful, watercolor-like patterns on fabric. You sprinkle powdered dye over ice on the fabric, and as it melts, the dye ...

A major struggle in the history of the American Left occurred when twenty-five thousand striking silk workers shut down the three hundred silk mills and dye houses in Paterson, New Jersey, for ...